Charles Rodney Chandler (Arcadia, July 23, 1938 – São Paulo, October 12, 1968) was a US Army officer and veteran of the Vietnam War assassinated by members of the Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária [pt] (VPR) and the Ação Libertadora Nacional (ALN) in São Paulo, Brazil.

[3] Diógenes José Carvalho de Oliveira unloaded the six rounds of his Taurus .38 caliber revolver on Chandler, then Marquito opened fire on the American veteran with a machine gun.

[6] According to US state sources, he was in Brazil to study Portuguese The assassins dropped pamphlets with the text: Criar um, dois, três Vietnãs, eis a palavra de ordem do comandante Che Guevara, que foi cruelmente assassinado na Bolívia por agentes imperialistas do nível deste Chandler, notório criminoso de guerra no Vietnã, e hoje punido e executado pela Justiça Revolucionária.

[6] The historian Carlos Fico [pt] characterizes the assassination of Chandler as having had a major impact on the Brazilian military regime, as he was a "North American captain, with such an aura.

"[6][8] Involvement in the planning of the assassination is among the baseless accusations supporters of Jair Bolsonaro spread about Dilma Rousseff.